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Posted: **Fri Mar 30, 2018 7:20 am**

Hello there,

perhaps, this is already very simple and i just did'nt got that far into mod development right now.

It seems like a mess, if you want to create a self defined entity and tell the game to open a self defined new gui-window especially for it. It would be easier, if the Class LuaEntity would be extended with an attribute called gui (for example), which can be filled with a function to build the gui window and will be fired if the user clicks on the entity (like all the typical entities in the base game right now)

What i try to do in my mod:

- create a new entity, that looks like a constant combinator, but open another gui for reasons
- extend an existing entity gui, like the one of train stops with own gui elements

If there is an easy way to do this right now, i would be happy to get hints how to solve this

Greetings Ronny

Posted: **Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:16 am**

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script.on_event(defines.events.on_gui_opened,function(event)
  if event.entity.name == 'myentity' then
    local player = game.players[event.player_index]
    player.opened = make_my_gui(player,event.entity)
    end
  end)

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